Love is my sin and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving:
O, but with mine compare thou thine own state,
And thou shalt find it merits not reproving;
Or, if it do, not from those lips of thine,
That have profaned their scarlet ornaments
And seal'd false bonds of love as oft as mine,
Robb'd others' beds' revenues of their rents.
Be it lawful I love thee, as thou lovest those
Whom thine eyes woo as mine importune thee:
Root pity in thy heart, that when it grows
Thy pity may deserve to pitied be.
If tho dost seek to have what thou dost hide,
by self-example mayst thou be denied!

Sonnet 18:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time tho growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

Sonnet 108:

What's in the brain that ink may character
Which hath not figured to thee my true spirit?
What's new to speak, what new to register,
That may express my love or thy dear merit?
Nothing, sweet boy; but yet, like prayers divine,
I must, each day say o'er the very same,
Counting no old thing old, thou mine, I thine,
Even as when first I hallow'd thy fair name.
So that eternal love in love's fresh case
Weighs not the dust and injury of age,
Nor gives to necessary wrinkles place,
But makes antiquity for aye his page,
Finding the first conceit of love there bred
Where time and outward form would show it dead.

Biography

About shakespeare's accomplishments, tragedies, and life.

Family::

Father: John Shakespeare
Mother: Mary Arden
Siblings:
Joan (1558-1558)
Margaret (1562-1563)
William (1564-1616)
Gilbert (1566-1612)
Joan (1569-1546)
Anne (1571-1579)
Richard (1574-1613)
Edmund (1580-1613)
Wife: Anne Hathaway

Life::
-Born April 26, 1564 (his celebrated birth date,
no one knows for sure his actual birthday)
-Attended the Christain Holy Trinity Church
when he was young; studied the
Common Book of Prayers and the English Bible.
-1605: payed £440 toward the upkeep of
the chancel and became a lay rector.
- It is said that he likely attended the
Elizabethan theatrical productions
of traveling theatre troups.
-At about age eleven he entered the
Stratford school of grammar, King's New School;
studied theatre, acting, latin literature, and history.
-When he finished school he apprenticed for his
father, but some say he was a school teacher.
-At age eighteen he got his father's consent to
marry Anne Hathaway, the married in the Village
of Temple Grafton.
-he had three children: Susana, Judith, and Hamnet.

William Shakespeare

Table of Contents

His Works

Plays::

Comedies:

Tragedies:

History:

Poetry::

Sonnets:

Some Poetry

Sonnet 142:

Sonnet 18:

Sonnet 108:

Biography

Family::